I do have a question related to the Vanguard series: How do the more evocative titles originate? I've discovered that The Bright Face of Danger is a much-used title that seems to have originated with a turn of the century novel by Robert Neilson Stephens, and I think I've tracked down Night's Black Agents, but I'm curious about some other titles, such as The Stars Look Down and The Ruins of Noble Men.

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The bolded titles are not from Vanguard? Where are they from? A Google search will usually find them if they're not used in epigraphs within the book.

I do have a question related to the Vanguard series: How do the more evocative titles originate? I've discovered that The Bright Face of Danger is a much-used title that seems to have originated with a turn of the century novel by Robert Neilson Stephens, and I think I've tracked down Night's Black Agents, but I'm curious about some other titles, such as The Stars Look Down and The Ruins of Noble Men.

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The bolded titles are not from Vanguard? Where are they from? A Google search will usually find them if they're not used in epigraphs within the book.

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Those bolded titles were section titles from within Reap the Whirlwind and Precipice, respectively.

The prologue title, "The Fire and the Song" is an allusion to "the fire and the rose are one", the final line from T.S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding."

Part 1 was "The Brink of Shadow". I just cooked that up.

Part 2, "The Bright Face of Danger", you've already sourced.

Part 3, "Instruments of Darkness" is from Macbeth.

The epilogue, "Ministers of Vengeance", is my invention, and an inversion of the phrase "ministers of grace".

Part Three, "One Little Victory", is the title of the first song on the RUSH album Vapor Trails.

Part Four, "The End of Ourselves," is one of my inventions.

The title of my story in Declassified, "The Stars Look Down," is another song title from RUSH's Vapor Trails. It's a song about realizing that one actually has no control over one's own fate, and that the universe is indifferent to our joy and our suffering. The stars look down ... and don't care.

I won't reveal them just yet, but be on the lookout for more Shakespeare-inspired section titles in next year's Vanguard finale, Storming Heaven.

I do have a question related to the Vanguard series: How do the more evocative titles originate? I've discovered that The Bright Face of Danger is a much-used title that seems to have originated with a turn of the century novel by Robert Neilson Stephens, and I think I've tracked down Night's Black Agents, but I'm curious about some other titles, such as The Stars Look Down and The Ruins of Noble Men.

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The bolded titles are not from Vanguard? Where are they from? A Google search will usually find them if they're not used in epigraphs within the book.

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Those bolded titles were section titles from within Reap the Whirlwind and Precipice, respectively.

The prologue title, "The Fire and the Song" is an allusion to "the fire and the rose are one", the final line from T.S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding."

Part 1 was "The Brink of Shadow". I just cooked that up.

Part 2, "The Bright Face of Danger", you've already sourced.

Part 3, "Instruments of Darkness" is from Macbeth.

The epilogue, "Ministers of Vengeance", is my invention, and an inversion of the phrase "ministers of grace".

Part Three, "One Little Victory", is the title of the first song on the RUSH album Vapor Trails.

Part Four, "The End of Ourselves," is one of my inventions.

The title of my story in Declassified, "The Stars Look Down," is another song title from RUSH's Vapor Trails. It's a song about realizing that one actually has no control over one's own fate, and that the universe is indifferent to our joy and our suffering. The stars look down ... and don't care.

I won't reveal them just yet, but be on the lookout for more Shakespeare-inspired section titles in next year's Vanguard finale, Storming Heaven.

2) making the Dauntless a Pyotr Veilikiy-class from Masao Okazaki's Starfleet Museum. So many TOS-era designs wind up being just re-arrangments of Consitution parts, but the Veilikiy has its own lines. Not the prettiest ship, but the design works.

I just finished "Almost Tomorrow, and I loved it. It came ascross to me as a Vanguard origin story, and I thought with this in mind it did a great job of showing us the beginnings of some of the relationships, and situations we saw in the rest of the series. My only real complaint is that Tim Pennington and Ming Xiong, two of my favorite Vanguard characters, weren't in the story at all. My Rating: 9/10

Well, just finished Precipe, so I can finally start reading Declassified. Precipe left me wanting for so much more, so can't wait.

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It's Precipice.

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Was typing a bit to fast when I posted that. Thanks.

Anyway, finished the first story, started on the second one this morning. Liked the first one, nice to see how some things started. Not to sure about the second one yet. I like Pennington, but I'm not a huge fan of stories told from first person perspective, so will have to wait and see if the story itself can grab me.